Hydrant



(No Model.)

P. WHITE.-

HYDRA-NT.

Patented May 2'7, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETERXVHITE, OF LOUIS, MISSOURI.

HYDRUANT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 428,707, dated May 27,1890.

Application filed May 20, 1889- Serial No. 311,440. (No model.)

substantially as is hereinafter set forth and claimed, aided by theannexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1is a side elevation of a streetwasher to which the improvement isapplicable. Fig. 2 is a plan of the washer, the cover being removed, andthe parts are as when the hydrant-valve is seated and locked. Fig. 3 isa similar plan,but showing the valve unlocked and the nozzle turnedaround to point to a different quarter; Fig. 4, a similar plan, butshowing the parts as when thehydrant-valve is unseated and locked; Fig.5, a

similar plan, the hydrant -valve being unseated and locked, but thenozzle pointing to another quarter. Fig. 6 is a vertical section on theline b 6 of Fig. 2, and Fig.7 a vertical section on the line 7 7 of Fig.5. I

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

The street-washer A, saving as it may be modified or supplemented by thepresentimprovement, isof the usual description. valve-chamber is shownat a. The valve is not shown, as the improvement relates to the meansfor fastening the valve in either of its positions, and not to anyspecial feature or features of the valve. 0 represents the box at theupper end of the washer for containing the nozzleB and the latch C. Thenozzle is attached to the pipe D, Figs. 6 and 7, which leads within thecasing E to the valve, and serves to deliver the water from thevalve-chamber, and also as the rod by means of which the valve is seatedand unseated. The nozzle is swiveled in the ordinary manner'to enable itto be pointed to any quarter.

The latch O and that part of the valve-rod with which it coacts is thenovel feature of the construction. The latch is pivoted at c to somesuitable bearing, such as the exten- Its.

sion f of the bushing F, which is fitted into the opening in the bottomof the box a, and

through which the valve-rod rises and falls in unseating and seating thevalve to enable the free end 0 of the latch to be moved to ward and fromthe valve-rod, substantially as indicated by the two positions of thelatch shown in Figs.2 and 3, respectively. hen the latch is turned inone direction, it is made to engage with the valve-rod and thereby tohold it from moving vertically, and when the latch is turned in theopposite direction it is disengaged from the valve-rod and the valverodis free to be raised and lowered. The most desirable mode ofconstructing the valve-rod so that the latch can be thus connected withand disconnected from it is as follows: The valve-rod is grooved at d,and its upper end forms a shoulder d. The groove cl is located upon thevalve-rod, so that when the valve-rod is raised to unseat the valve thegroove comes opposite the latch, and by turning the latch upon its pivotit can be made to engage with the groove, as shown in Fig. 7,

and thereby fasten the valve in its open position. Then the valve isseated, the shoulder d is just beneath the level of the latch, and byturning the latch on its pivot it can be made to come above the shoulderd, and thus hold the valve to its seat. The free end of the latch isshaped, as shown, to encircle the valve-rod when engaging in the groove(1, and to encircle the swivele d nozzle B when above the shoulder d, asshown, The latch is provided with a projection 0 suitably shaped for theapplication thereto of a wrench, by means of which the latch can beadjusted in its various described positions.

A flange a depends from the box-opening a and it is threaded for thecasing F. to be screwed into the lower end thereof and the bushing to bescrewed into the upper end thereof. The bushing is perforated centrallyand smoothly for the valve-rod to be worked upward and downward thereinsnugly, by which means the valve-rod is guided centrally in the casingand dirt is prevented from falling from the box a downward into thecasing.

I claim- The combination, with the casing E,having the valve-chamber atits lower end, of the box screwing to the upper end of the casing, the

bushing F, screwing into the part or neck w the bushing, and arranged toengage either [0 of the box, and having the extension f therethe groove(Z or the shoulder d, substantially in, the hollow valve-rod D, havingan enas specified.

larged upper end surrounded by and rotata- \Vituessmyhand this 14th dayof May, 1880. 5 ble in said bushing, which enlarged portion PFTER \VHITEhas the circumferential groove (1, the nozzle swiveled to the upper endof the valve-rod W'itnesses:

and forming a shoulder (Z therewith, and the C. D. MOODY, hooked catchC, pivoted to the extension f of D. \V. A. SANFORD.

